Matti
Matti is a street child of Udhafa Place Udhafa The old capital of the Maan empire and one of the great inhabited ruins of the world, an ancient Iru-founded city in eastern Tarkdaara, carved into the bedrock below the Claw Pe... who sits outside Thelian Character Thelian Thelian is a Maan boy of about twelve, raised in the tower-city of Udhafa, who works a training shift at the Udhafa ISEMH node on the sixtieth floor.'s apartment during Thelian's shifts, bringing pik-tree-bark tea for the sick girl inside and watching for danger. He is pale-haired and sharp-eyed, wearing a coat too large for his hunger-whittled frame, and he carries a stubborn smile like armour. He is the only person Thelian's age who stays without being asked.
Key traits
- Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age., male, adolescent; pale hair, sharp eyes, lean from hunger.
- A street child with no declared affiliation, part of Thelian's loose circle in the canal-block.
- Has been sitting outside the sixtieth-floor apartment on Thelian's shifts, watching the door and bringing tea for Elle Character Elle Elle is a small girl of three years in Thelian's household, gravely ill with heart-fever that has held her low for weeks..
- Reads Thelian's bruises on sight and does not accept the explanations offered.
- Carries a stubborn smile worn a little too bright and a little too fast, used as armour against the street.